We're elated to share that Liz Jensen, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, is joining August Health as Senior Director of Nursing Success & Care Innovation, starting March 30.
Liz has spent her career at the intersection of nursing, technology, and senior care — working as a direct-care nurse, then as a nurse educator, then as a senior care nurse executive, and most recently as Clinical Director at the Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center. There, she led the SPARK Clinical Collective, a national collaborative that brings together nurse executives, clinicians, engineers, and technology developers to evaluate and validate care solutions in skilled nursing and assisted living.
Her research on the tech investment priorities of nurse executives in senior living reinforced what she'd observed firsthand: that nursing practice in senior living has its own demands, rhythms, and constraints — and that building technology that actually works there starts with listening to nurses about what they need to succeed.
Over the past decade, she's contributed to the evaluation of more than 3,500 technologies and products. She's seen what actually works for care teams, and how nurses are on the frontline of the digital transformation of the industry.
Support from nurses and caregivers is the primary reason people move into assisted living and memory care. They are precious resources in today’s healthcare environment and successful senior living operators understand that a confident, empowered, and supported workforce is critical to reducing risk and operational success. August Health understands this and this new role is an opportunity to more fully focus on strategic, tech-enabled nursing success and care innovation in assisted living and memory care. I’m excited to keep working toward the goal of ensuring that older adults receive safe, dignified, high-quality care, from a workforce that feels safe, supported, and excited to go to work each day. - Liz Jensen, RN
Senior living is experiencing large-scale change from a model built around hospitality toward one where clinical care is a core competency. That transition is happening because care complexity is rising, and because the workforce challenges facing nurses and CNAs aren't going away, and because operators are needing to ask the tough questions.
Getting it right requires people who understand care delivery from the inside, not just from the outside. Liz brings that perspective.
She's been a long-time partner of August Health, and her experience with how our platform supports frontline staff informed her decision to join. In this role, Liz will continue pursue her commitment to data-driven, person-centered care in senior living.
In her role at August Health, Liz will develop a community for nursing leaders while advocating for meaningful solutions to the most salient problems they face, working closely with our product, strategy, customer experience, and leadership teams.
“We're at a point where technology and AI are rapidly changing the possibility for how care is delivered in senior living. It is essential to have a trusted voice from the industry channeling the knowledge of how senior living operators historically operated, and guiding them into the future. Who better than Liz?” - Justin Schram, MD, Co-founder, August Health
We're building software for care teams, which means we have a responsibility to understand what those teams actually need. That’s why Liz is here.
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